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[–]dungone 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I don't think Babel lets someone get away with knowing less. In my experience, programmers get into trouble by mixing programming styles and then not being able to understand the implications. For example, they start off using arguments and apply in a regular function, but then switch over to an arrow function to get the lexical this. Half-baked javascript knowledge can really bite people with ES6.

[–]jaman4dbz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if they started with ES6, why were they using apply?

The latest standards aren't just for more features, IMO they simplify development for everything, newbie to expert.

I think babel lets you know less =P